The Last of the Mohicans: The Grey Translation

The Last of the Mohicans: The Grey Translation

The classic novel, now in a modern English translation • Ebook edition includes Cooper’s original text. James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans was the “first great American novel” ( The Daily Gazette ). It tells the story of war, love, friendship, and survival that inspired an Oscar®-winning film. Today, however, many find the archaic prose “convoluted” and “difficult to read” ( Goodreads top-ranked review). The novel flows with new life in this modern English translation by editor Aldwin Grey. Retold with finesse and rigor, Grey’s translations enable readers to enjoy classics in a fresh, clear voice. IT IS 1757 and England and France are fighting for the claim of the New World. When the French attack the British fort at Lake George, a white scout, Hawkeye, and his two Mohican companions, Chingachgook and Uncas, become entwined in a battle to save the daughters of Commander Munro. Following the waterways and shadowed tracks of the Appalachian forests, the woodsmen set forth on a journey—sometimes brutal and sometimes comical—into a territory where lives are paid for with blood and scalps. Original “What art thou?” “A woman. One of a hated race, if thou wilt—a Yengee. But one who has never harmed thee, and who cannot harm thy people, if she would; who asks for succour.” The Grey Translation Who are you? he said. A woman of a hated race. A Yengee. But one who has never harmed you and would never harm your people. I ask for help. “[Cooper] didn’t bring back the past, he imagined it, dreamed it, set down a vision of America that became real for millions.” —The Associated Press Published in the USA